To Pay Off Debt You Have to Get Gritty

Photo by Brettro My husband and I do not have debt. We avoid getting debt like we avoid stepping off cliffs, walking on broken glass and driving into oncoming traffic. We are older – in our late 30s and early 40s – so it’s not that big of a deal to announce being debt-free at […]

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Turn Off the A/C This Summer: Use This Instead

  I hate working/living/sleeping in the heat. But I also despise high electricity bills and breathing in stagnant refrigerated air. Just one of our A/Cs in the RV pulls a whopping 22 amps. You’d think more people would refrain from using them all the time, yet, today was our first warm  — not hot, just […]

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Countries with Fewest Natural Disasters

A view of Volcan Baru, the volcano that may erupt all over my organic coffee farm fantasy. It’s interesting how the crisis in Japan coupled with the fear of impending doom of 2012 will cause people to reconsider living near a fault line or a volcano. Even my husband, the biggest 2012 skeptic, emailed me […]

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10 Things I Noticed About Traveling WITHOUT Kids

    Photo by Christian Großekathöfer. I’m sitting on the hotel bed in Panama City, Panama, sipping coffee and killing time before our 10:30 a.m. taxi arrives to take us to the airport. This is the first time in a long time I’ve traveled anywhere without my nearly-constant entourage of my hubby and four kids. It’s […]

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